[PD] turn a symbol to a message

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Roman Haefeli wrote:

 > And yeah: Pd is missing a way to display the distinction between:
 > ...

Not only to display it, but also to represent it (for example for 
storing it into a file with [textfile], or into a message box with [set 
...( and not re-parsing it; and for manually writing it as a "literal").

Indeed Pd is missing a way of properly managing all characters that have 
some special meaning, like whitespace, dollar sign, commas and 
semicolons, and even characters that have some special meaning 
_internally_, such as brackets, which cause weird behaviours if used as 
labels of gui objects (sometimes the weirdnesses only manifest 
themselves after saving and loading the patch)....


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